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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Youcanprint
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788892658370

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Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain Pdf

The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783849674632

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Mark Twain's Letters by Mark Twain Pdf

Like his other writings, Mark Twain's letters attest that he was not the greatest of all humorists, but that he did have an amazing gift of depicting the average American, and what is more, that he could do it sympathetically and from the inside of the house, not ironically through the window as Thackeray depicted the absurdities of his contemporaries. The letters show, also, what a storybook life he led. Born obscurely in a western town without advantages, half-educated as a typesetter for a country newspaper, a runaway, a soldier "riding a small yellow mule" to the aid of the Confederacy, a runaway again, a mining prospector familiar with mountain gambling-saloons, a news reporter, he at last acquired some fame with his "Jumping Frog." His reputation travelled east and he became a lecturer and special correspondent. Then, of a sudden, he made himself conspicuous to the entire country with his "Innocents Abroad." He became a mighty traveller. He was feasted by kings, decorated by universities, and honored everywhere. From Hartford all around the earth and back, he was a leading citizen of the world. The ingenious authors of the most shocking fiction could not invent plots swifter or more romantic. This editions contains the letters from the year 1853 all through 1910.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0824802888

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Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain Pdf

"I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting his 1866 trip. If the young reporter's excuse makes perfect sense to you, join the thousands of Island lovers who have delighted in Twain's efforts when he finally did put pen to paper.

Author : Valdemar Adolph Thisted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Hell
ISBN : OXFORD:600069822

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Letters from Hell by Valdemar Adolph Thisted Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547559467

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Mark Twain's Letters (1907-1910) by Mark Twain Pdf

"Mark Twain's Letters (1907-1910)" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820316505

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The Bible According to Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

This volume collects the most important writings by Mark Twain in which he used biblical settings, themes, and figures. Featuring Twain's singular portrayals of God, Adam, Eve, Satan, Methuselah, Shem, St. Peter, and others, the writings stand among Twain's most imaginative expressions of his views on human nature and humankind's relation to the Creator and the universe. Composed over four decades (1871-1910), the writings range from farce to fantasy to satire, each one bearing the mark of Twain's unmistakable wit and insight. Among the many delights in store for readers are Adam and Eve's divergent accounts of their domestic troubles; Methuselah's discussion of an ancient version of baseball, complete with a parody of baseball jargon; Shem's hand-wringing account of how material shortages and labor troubles were hampering the progress of the ark his father, Noah, was building; a description of the disruptive actions of the fire-and-brimstone evangelist Sam Jones upon arriving in heaven; Captain Stormfield's revelations of what heaven is really like; Satan's musings on our puerile concepts of the afterlife; and Twain's advice on how to dress and tip properly in heaven. Twain's humor, however, is never gratuitous. As readers laugh their way through this volume, they will find ample evidence of Twain's concerns about scriptural fallacies and inconsistencies, the Bible's rather flat portrayal of important characters, and our limited notions about the nature and meaning of our own--and God's--existence. Many of the pieces in this collection, even the most lighthearted, might still be considered controversial; of some of the darker pieces, Twain himself acknowledged that they would be heretical in any age. Moreover, these writings are valuable cultural artifacts of a time when, across the Western world, fundamental religious beliefs were being called into question by the precepts of Darwinism and the rapid advances of science and technology. Several of this volume's selections are previously unpublished; others, like Letters from the Earth, are classics. Virtually all have been newly edited to reflect as closely as possible Twain's final intentions for their form and content. For serious Twain devotees, editors Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough have supplied an abundance of background material on the writings, including details on the history of their composition, publication, and relevance to the Twain canon.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:39015046452960

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Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain Pdf

25 letters written as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, a newspaper.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547559382

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Mark Twain's Letters (1876-1885) by Mark Twain Pdf

"Mark Twain's Letters (1876-1885)" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Mark Twain,Harriet Elinor Smith,Lin Salamo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 939 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : OCLC:504956264

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Mark Twain's Letters by Mark Twain,Harriet Elinor Smith,Lin Salamo Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547559405

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Mark Twain's Letters (1886-1900) by Mark Twain Pdf

"Mark Twain's Letters (1886-1900)" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290953694

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Mark Twain's Letters. Arranged with Comment by Mark Twain Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627938181

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Mark Twain's Letters by Mark Twain Pdf

"Mark Twain's Letters Volume 1" includes the correspondences of Mark Twain from 1853-1866.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520261341

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Dear Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

Collects two hundred letters from readers of Mark Twain to the author himself, offering a glimpse into the lives and sensibilites of nineteenth-century children, preachers, con artists, inmates, and other fans of the author's work.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012118322

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Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II by Mark Twain Pdf

The twelve notebooks in volume 1 provided information about the eighteen years in which the most profound, even dramatic, changes took place in Clemens' life. He early achieved the limits of his boyhood ambition by becoming a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, a position there is no reason to believe he would have abandoned if the Civil War had not forced him to do so. In fleeing from a war which principle and temperament prevented him from supporting, Clemens entered into the first stages of his literary career by serving as a reporter for newspapers in Virginia City and San Francisco. When the restricted experiences available to a local reporter had been thoroughly explored, he moved on as a traveling correspondent to the Sandwich Islands and then still farther to Europe and the Near East. The latter travels provided him with material for The Innocents Abroad, the book that established Mark Twain as a popular author with an international reputation in 1869. In 1872 he further exploited his personal history by publishing Roughing It and in the same year visited England to gather material on English people and institutions. He returned to England the following year, this time accompanied by his family and by a secretary who would record the observations printed as the last notebook in volume 1. Volume 2 of Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, documenting Clemens' activities in the years from 1877 to 1883, consists largely of the record of three trips which would serve as the source for three travel narratives: the excursion to Bermuda, a prolonged tour of Europe, and an evocative return to the Mississippi River. Despite the common impulse to preserve observations and impressions for literary use, the contents of the notebooks are remarkably different in their vitality-and the works which developed from the notes are correspondingly varied.

Author : Mark Twain,Edgar Marquess Branch,Michael B. Frank,Kenneth M. Sanderson,Harriet E. Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520036697

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2 by Mark Twain,Edgar Marquess Branch,Michael B. Frank,Kenneth M. Sanderson,Harriet E. Smith Pdf

Here is young Sam Clemens—in the world, getting famous, making love—in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was—from San Francisco to New York, to St. Louis, and then to Paris, Naples, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Yalta, and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and on to lecturing in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. Resplendent with wit, love of life, ambition, and literary craft, this new volume in the wonderful Bancroft Library edition of Mark Twain's Letters will delight and inform both scholars and general readers. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mark Twain Foundation, Jane Newhall, and The Friends of The Bancroft Library.